Category Archives: Pietmond^

Looking toward Hobo Squat across the side of Big E near the center of town.

A classic SoSo Village/New Pietmond shot: Golden Way.

Now looking north from the same position. Unnamed way as of yet. Really, I suppose only Golden Way has achieved any official status within the town. I’ll have to work on that soon.

And then again from the same position, looking east toward the Bodega supermarket, with Big Boy in background and Big E/Schwa to left.

Big E and New Pietmond.

Big E and New Pietmond 02.

House of Truth dead ahead, with Hole in the Wall (dive bar) to left and Stairs Building 02 to right. There are 2 identical Stairs Buildings in town: 01 and 02. Probably need a rename.

A high, 7 prim freebie ladder connecting the top of Stairs Building 02 with the second floor of the Hobo Squat. Doesn’t have anything to do with the individual buildings themselves, just something I playfully added.

Hole in the Wall interior. Bottom’s up Baker Bloch!

How big will New Pietmond Get? 03

Quick answer: Probably not a lot more. 30 separate structures already (!).

Some more pics, then:

Just as of yesterday or day before, New Pietmond, or what I alternately, for now, call the SoSo Village (more on that in a moment-o), has seen the addition of a number of sidewalks, including this one running beside the newly placed Sink Lair Gallery in the northwest corner of my presently owned property (formerly occupied by trees). Great view toward the skyscrapers (Big Boy, Tower of A. Mann, Tower of TILE) in the eastern part of the town, eh?

Btw, I think I’ll rename the Tower of TILE the TILE Tower to further differentiate the name from the nearby Tower of A. Man… since the conversion to “A. Mann Tower” for the latter doesn’t seem to work as well.

New cottage on the western edge of town, another freebie find, as are the great majority of New Pietmond structures. I believe this cottage will be a (pretend) rental, and I might know who the first tennant will be. More soon on that as well!

Baker Bloch sits on the front steps of the as yet unoccupied “West Cottage”, staring toward Orange House and Obelisk Park in the distance. That’s where all this Pietmond renewal business began not even quite a month ago, although it seems considerably longer since so much has happened in the meantime here. Exciting times in New Pietmond for sure.

Another shot from beside the West Cottage toward the skyscrapers.

This was an amazing freebie find, and I was honored to visit what I assume was the original location for this Tooter Claxton build in Heterocera continent’s Calleta sim, more famous for being the home of Arcadia Asylum slum village. I’ve incorporated a number of her slum structures in New Pietmond.

Oh cool: Just re-found a post on Tooter Claxton’s own blog about his structure pictured below. Check it out.

I switched on the midday environment so that you the reader can see the details of the “hobo squat” a bit better.

To make room for Hobo Squat or HQ for short (center background), I had to move the Home o’ Fibs formerly occupying that space to the area formerly occupied by the House of Truth (left), the latter which I moved more toward the center of New Pietmond (right) instead of merely deleting it. Too nice of a build to just tuck back into my inventory somewhere. Neat that I could create a picture with all 3 builds involved in the move at once. The central structure between the 3 buildings just mentioned is the Sink Lair Gallery, also newly installed as stated before — just attempting to give some perspective of all the changes here.

More new stuff: a kind of main entrance into the town has been created, leading from the northern edge of my parcel into its central district. After experimenting with installing what would become the West Cottage in the place of Fleep’s Cottage (right) I decided to keep the latter in this location, along with its bordering azalea bushes. Across the new sidewalk from it stands another grunge garage for the town, a freebie offered on the Second Life Marketplace by Karyn’s Chopper Parts, billing itself as, “the first and number one motorcycle supply store of Second Life.” Karyn’s shop was also the source of the freebie Hole in the Wall dive bar that I’ll get to in just a minute.

Karyn’s Garage again.

How big will New Pietmond get? 02

Moved central teleporter of SoSo Village to Middle Square, in front of the dead tree on the nearest corner here.

Added another potential (small) gallery beside SoSo… perhaps a new “SoSo West”??

It’s converted from an old coffee house.

New sidewalks.

Sidewalks surround Pietmond’s Big E now.

Two more new structures to the south of the SoSo Gallery. The one to the right could be yet another small gallery possibility. The far structure with round window probably represents a residence. Who lives there? (so forth so on)

View from the north. The structure to the right here is identical to the foreground structure of the previous photo.

I’ve inserted two skyscrapers into the Pietmond landscape, one familar to fans of Pietmond and the other, higher one a brand new addition to the burg. The former is Big Boy Tower or just Big Boy, seen in Pietmond Phase II, and not that far from the new spot I set it up. My original post on this addition is here. Then I think I’ll call the new tower the Tower of Mann or Tower of A. Mann, sort of after rock singer Aimee Mann, who came up in a conversation between the wife and I recently, but of course is more a play off of the name Big Boy next door. The other tower is a big boy indeed, but this is a real *man* of a tower in contrast. I’ll have to measure the height asap but its looks to top the 100 meter mark quite easily. To put this is perspective, the Statue of Liberty is 93 meters high from the ground to Lady Liberty’s torch. And since that’s a statue of a towering woman and here in Pietmond we have Tower of A. Mann statue, perhaps they are more closely related in some as yet undiscovered way. Hafta think about that.

Also coming to Pietmond is Arcadia Asylum’s super nifty Bodega supermarket, packing a lot of entertainment into a trim 32 prim design. I’m not really sure why I’ve never used this structure before in Pietmond or anywhere else I can remember. Hmmm. Anyway, the market sits directly in front of the Tower of A. Mann, almost blocking the opening into this tower.

Pietmond’s new skyscape from the direction of the old Pietmond Heights location. Nice.

Wings 3 and 4 of the X-Spot Gallery contain abstract art by syncher friend Mike Casey and collages by Kenneth Rougeau and Julie Takac. As my collection from each of these artists hasn’t been significantly altered since I first introduced their Pietmond virtual galleries in late 2010/early 2011, I’ve decided not to review them again here but instead point to former Baker Blinker Blog posts on the subject.

First up came Mike Casey’s art, housed in SoSo West:*

http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/pietmond-ch-ch-ch-changes/

Then soon after this sprouted the Norum Gallery, a smaller venue chocked full of Julie’s beautiful collages:

http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/norum-gallery-01/
http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/norum-gallery-02/

Lastly came Kenneth Rougeau, one of the few Pietmond artists with significant Second Life experience, and who use to own a virtual gallery himself several years ago. I originally put his art in the Pietmond South Gallery, as discussed here:

http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/36508/

I’d also like to give a repeat plug to the art and photography of another syncher friend Stegokitty, as originally reviewed in this Gallery in the Rocks post from February 2011:

http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/gallery-in-the-rocks/

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* In conjunction with opening SoSo West, I also conducted a lengthy interview of Mike and his art in Jan.-Feb. 2011.

http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/interviews/mikecasey01/

We continue from X-Spot Gallery, Wing 02a with an inworld snapshot of the second of 3 notecards (and accompanying Jeogeot map) describing the exhibit. Again I’ll let the notecard do most of the talking, and just give supplemental photos and descriptions here.

A wall containing mostly Chilbo related objects, including Grassland II (etched art by Kristine Kristan, present Chilbo mayor still, I believe) and a recently created town map. Along with these we have a poster advertising an art exhibit of another defunct Jeogeot Gallery, The Red Leaf, which use to exist next to the 4 sim Hanja infohub area at the heart of the continent.

More Chilbo related art, or, left to right, “gallery surface1” by Janis Shamen, “Winter Berries” by Corcosman Voom, and a Chilbo photo by Melodie Darwin… yes, she’s definitely taken pictures from all over this largest of Second Life continents. Also notice the very similar effect of foreground red plants in the Voom and Darwin works here.

Then looking directly up at the centerpoint of the exhibit gives you this view of “NO HEAD FLEXI FISH” from the Tubular Gallery southwest of Chilbo, a kinetic sculpture designed by elros Tuominen.

Also mentioned on Notecard 2 of this “Jeogeot through Art and Word” is the DKArt gallery run by Dave Koi. His 2 works in the exhibit are the red scupture “aim high”. along with “Babelstorm”, filled with blue cubes adorned with letters of the alphabet.

Notecard 3 of 3.

A Parktown photo by Darwin. I consider Parktown (on the west side of the Hanja infohub mentioned above) a type of twin or counterpart to Chilbo. It’s a shame they couldn’t team up in some way to generate a greater whole, perhaps initiating some kind of overall Jeogeot, um, unification. Not exactly the word I’m looking for, but teaming up to step everything up a notch, Jeogeot-style. Um.

Two similarly named works but from different Jeogeot locations: to the right, “Phoenix” by Kylie Sabra, and to the left, “Tuscon, Arizona” by Samara Barzane of Park Galleries, yet another Jeogeot art establishment that does not exist any more. To be honest, I can’t remember the story behind “Phoenix” — I promise to check that out asap; it’s not mentioned in the notecard I don’t believe.

More twinning: 2 unusual galleries from the same sim of Cheosan, although no relationship between the two that I know of. To the left we have “The Gallery Shaped Like a Woman” masterminded by Earl Dinkins. To the right is the plainly named Cheosan Building, which is not plain atall within or without.

Now 2 actual works by Dinkins: “205” (left) and “1105 quatrains pillar” (right).

2 Melodie Darwin photographs come next as we head up to the end of the exhibit (“Lordshore Bridge” and “Island Light”).

An early Second Life map found buried beneath a mysterious farmhouse in Eunhuang as described in this Baker Blinker Blog post.

To end: “Life” by Melodie Darwin…

… and a book called “Expedition 1: A Trip to the Southern Island” by famed Second Life explorer and conservationist Salazar Jack.

Start of “Jeogeot through Art and Word,” taking up a full wing (of 4 total) of the newly re-established X-Spot Gallery.

First of 3 maps and accompanying notecards describing the exhibit:

I’ll just move through each picture in succession as you encounter them. Here’s “Untitled” by Melodie Darwin.

LVPVS IN FABVLA p26: “There I found you, my love” (water and ink on blotter paper).

“What Counts” by Dale Innis (left) and “Around Every Corner” (right), digital art by Czar Nicholas.

“Orion” by Kyra.

“Commemorating Sculpties” by Melodie Darwin. Here’s the SLurl to the real deal.

Another Melodie Darwin photograph from the now extinct WES community at the end of West End Road.

“Deserted Crossroad” also by Darwin. I believe this use to be the center of what I called X-ville in the Baker Blinker Blog, officially known as Pine Tree Village and where I had a small gallery at one time.

“Steep Hill” by Darwin. This was near Sternberg, yet another extinct Jeogeot urban region, pheh.

Several Sunklands related pictures, or, from left to right, a photo of my Biggie Gallery formerly in Aotearoa; a rendering of a Dogon alien being by Lark Blackheart from a small, defunct Otaki Gorge gallery; and then a surrealist painting by Sambroxton String found in Big Sink.

Then 2 more photos from Sunklands to end this post, the first by Melodie Darwin once again and originating in the Felix Meritus Monestary that use to take up the entire Lil Burn Valley sinkhole; yet another fabulous Jeogeot location now gone with the wind.

And here’s another Jeogeot goner: the Roseheart community formerly of Second Sink.

X-Spot Gallery, Wing 02b

Although the number of kiosked Second Life galleries is down from several years back, there are still about 9 in the Sunklands area alone. My X-Spot Gallery is marked by the lowest of the orange squares in the above screen save from this art galleries of Second Life map, with each of these squares representing a gallery kiosk obtained through Sasun Steinbeck’s wonderful system.

Baker Bloch on the top floor of the Tower of TILE, a supplemental gallery to the X-Spot looming below him here.

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Hucka D., want to comment on the above photos?

Hucka D.:

Nah.

Continuing from X-Spot Gallery, Wing 01a, next we view “Trouble in Store”…

… and then on the wall across from it, the enigmatic “What’s Behind the Red Door?” I believe this is also the largest work of X-Spot’s Kollage Kid kollection, er, collection.

“Road Trip” (left) and “Elephantasmagoria” (right).

Straight ahead: “Cactus House”, a nice, compact black and white effort.

Then across from it we have another b&w collage exhibited beside the resting Baker Bloch here, named “What Lies Beneath”. Reminds me a bit of “Who Left That Tap Running?” from the upwards part of this wing.

The witty “I Remember the Incident at the Canal”. Do *you*?

“Found Heads” — there are a number of these type of collages in Michael’s work depicting a row of women and/or men whose appearance have been uniformly altered.

“nowhere town2.” Strangely enough I think I want to actually visit!

“Madonna and Egg”, made from Tunnock’s Tea Cake wrapper foil, old scrap and cut outs, according to Michael’s flickr page on the work. A bit different from the rest of those here.

And we leave this wing with “Victorian Seaside Holiday drawbacks No. 237” to the left and “Mr. Archimboldo” to the right, with another NYC background for the latter.

Super job Michael!